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# Understand mapping

One common challenge when dealing with audits is about being able to reuse your assessment on one framework to move to a different one. This commonly refered to as mapping or crosswalk between standards.

This capability is supported on CISO Assistant and allows the user to create a projection of the content of an audit, given that a mapping is available.\
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Mapping are library objects that can be customized, imported and submitted to the community. To see the available ones, head to the libraries store and filter to mapping:\
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![](/files/SRF4UdwUei66FUOFUVZ4)

Mappings are essentially a representation of the links between assessable nodes of a framework, and for which we are using the convention documented on NIST's OLIR project.

Mapping is a directed graph linked a SRC framework to a TGT framework on which the nodes can have one of the following relationships:\
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![](/files/5rILxYH7qQ0ZaM7qumWC)  

To create yours, you can follow one of the examples on `/tools` or bootstrap a starter using the `prepare_mapping`script.

To apply a mapping, you needt to first load a mapping from the library. Then, head to your audit and click on `apply mapping`and select the targeted framework and see the projected being created ✨. 

Note: the apply mapping feature can also be reused to clone the audit and create a new revision, if the same framework and same scope are selected. 


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